• a riot at Paducah, Kentucky's Woolfolk Home led to Ulysses S. Grant's promotion above his superior officer, Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith?
• Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?

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Louisville, Kentucky

• 37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge (pictured) connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River?
• Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes?
• Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?
• Louisville, Kentucky's first parking garage was built in 1953, as an addition to the 1913 Starks Building (pictured)?
• New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?
• Boxhill, a mansion near Louisville, Kentucky, sat vacant for years after it was the site of a double homicide, and was restored by the wife of a former Kentucky governor?
• Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937?
• Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
• Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death?
• a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?

Bowling Green, Kentucky

• Dillard's opened a store at Bowling Green, Kentucky's Greenwood Mall in 1996, then moved to another store in the mall less than three years later?
• over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky?
• the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green, Kentucky's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station?

Kentucky

• American pioneer John Bowman, granduncle of Kentucky University founder John Bryan Bowman, presided over the first county court held in Kentucky?
• Jim Bunning, currently a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, was the Pittsburgh Pirates' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1968?
• Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
• Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II?
• Kentucky philanthropist Eli Metcalfe Bruce contributed more than $400,000 of his personal fortune to aiding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War?
• Kentucky political boss Thomas Rhea was instrumental in getting delegates from Southern states to vote to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at the 1932 Democratic National Convention?
• Kentucky Senator Archibald Dixon was primarily responsible for the repeal of the slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise in Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory?
• Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
• Kentucky's Cherokee State Park, now part of Kenlake State Resort Park, was the first blacks-only state park in the Southern United States?
• Kentucky's Great Saltpetre Cave, which produced saltpetre for the War of 1812, was later used to film part of the 1997 Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below?

Frankfort, Kentucky

• the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky?

Owensboro, Kentucky

• on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
• the Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Kentucky was sculpted by a Hungarian?
• the Union Station in Owensboro, Kentucky was once turned into a discothèque and a pizza parlor?

Covington, Kentucky

• Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
• Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
• the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
• the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?

Hopkinsville, Kentucky

• Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain?
• the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
• the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?

Murray, Kentucky

• Kenneth W. Winters, a member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray, did not begin his legislative service until he was 70 years old?
• the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Murray, Kentucky, is the only Civil War Monument in Kentucky to prominently feature Robert E. Lee?

Lexington, Kentucky

• Thomas Allin, an early settler of Kentucky, USA, laid out the cities of Lexington, Harrodsburg, and Henderson?
• Sarah Beth Barnette, a senior at Lexington Christian Academy, is the first player from Lexington to win Kentucky's "Miss Basketball" award?
• the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?